50. Same here,

on both the childhood history in Girl Scouts and a hysterectomy (five years ago).

We MUST fight for reproductive rights for all young people of child-bearing age. I remember my EXTREME frustration when I was in my early 20s and discovered that no MD would perform a tubal ligation for me, because "I might change my mind later and want children." I have always been clear that I would not be a biological parent--knowing that I could 'parent' any of the hundreds of thousands of children in need of a forever home. However, every doctor I saw patronizingly asserted to me that they knew best about refusing to do a tubal ligation on a young woman like me.